Hacker News: markdog12

New comment by markdog12 in "Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device"

markdog12 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:37:21 +0000

> opinionated on-device intelligence

> Hate speech triage. On-device moderation that flags hateful, abusive and threatening text

What could go wrong here?

Apple Silicon's Surprisingly Speedy SIMD

markdog12 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:59:59 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/zooko/status/2092738300314267962

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458546

Points: 11

# Comments: 9

Releasing Execution Contexts

markdog12 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:35:08 +0000

Article URL: https://crystal-lang.org/2026/07/12/releasing-execution-contexts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48942443

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by markdog12 in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

markdog12 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:14:52 +0000

I've tested it extensively for actual local development for my job, and hard disagree here. It's a waste of time to use it. Wish it were not true.

New comment by markdog12 in "Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs"

markdog12 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:36:11 +0000

This software has been terrible for me. Burns tokens like crazy, and fails. Most times I try to use the browser plugin, it just says it can't use the plugin. When it does work, it takes minutes to click a button. Unusable workflow.

I ask to generate a png with an alpha channel. It can't. Instead, it outputs a chroma-keyed image, then generates a python script to remove chroma key (fails), then a js script (which also fails). Then my 5h allotment is up.

It's frustrating because if it worked as they advertise, it'd be an amazing tool.

New comment by markdog12 in "Running local models is good now"

markdog12 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:32:16 +0000

100% agree. I've spent many hours testing out local models/harnesses. So far, they're very much not worth the tradeoff. Obviously, I hope that changes.

New comment by markdog12 in "Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding"

markdog12 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:34:01 +0000

Came here to say the same thing. Why add this fake image?

New comment by markdog12 in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

markdog12 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:04:48 +0000

"AI overly affirms users, and that's bad" - everyone nods. "Modern society overly affirms people, and that's bad" - ....

New comment by markdog12 in "Classical statues were not painted horribly"

markdog12 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:52:41 +0000

Why did so many people swallow this crap in the first place?

A.I. is a printed birthday card train to Paris

markdog12 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:22:54 +0000

Article URL: https://filiph.net/text/ai-is-a-printed-birthday-card-train-to-paris.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46038067

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by markdog12 in "Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened"

markdog12 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:28:10 +0000

Ah, I think I searched for "jpegxl", that's why there was no match.

New comment by markdog12 in "Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened"

markdog12 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:23:03 +0000

"Yes, re-opening.".

> Given these positive signals, we would welcome contributions to integrate a performant and memory-safe JPEG XL decoder in Chromium. In order to enable it by default in Chromium we would need a commitment to long-term maintenance. With those and our usual launch criteria met, we would ship it in Chrome.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/WjCKc...

Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened

markdog12 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:23:02 +0000

Article URL: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40168998

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46033330

Points: 293

# Comments: 136

New comment by markdog12 in "Nano Banana Pro"

markdog12 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:37:45 +0000

I asked Gemini "dymamic view" how SynthID works: https://gemini.google.com/share/62fb0eb38e6b

New comment by markdog12 in "Gemini 3"

markdog12 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:49:25 +0000

OK, I just used https://gemini.google.com/app, I wonder if it's the same there.

New comment by markdog12 in "Gemini 3"

markdog12 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:36:44 +0000

Ah, I should have mentioned it was a slow motion video.

> The default FPS it's analyzing video at is 1

Source?

New comment by markdog12 in "Gemini 3"

markdog12 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:40:28 +0000

I asked it to analyze my tennis serve. It was just dead wrong. For example, it said my elbow was bent. I had to show it a still image of full extension on contact, then it admitted, after reviewing again, it was wrong. Several more issues like this. It blamed it on video being difficult. Not very useful, despite the advertisements: https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1990865172152660047

New comment by markdog12 in "ChatGPT Atlas"

markdog12 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:23:38 +0000

https://www.google.com/chrome/ai-innovations/

New comment by markdog12 in "WASM 3.0 Completed"

markdog12 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:22:31 +0000

Dart for a long time now.

New comment by markdog12 in "macOS Tahoe"

markdog12 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:53:47 +0000

Whoa, you can now search clipboard history. Go to Spotlight Search, Command+4. You'll get a list of entries, each with a copy button, and is searchable. Even shows the app it was copied in.